Facing sudden loss of commercial driver’s licenses, truckers drive home their message at MassDOT board [Video]

Truck drivers facing the sudden loss of their commercial driver’s licenses — based at least in part on infractions from decades ago — tried driving home their case Wednesday in front of the state board which oversees the Registry of Motor Vehicles.The drivers and their loved ones are hoping to convince the RMV to change course, since both federal and state law allow for a pathway to CDL reinstatement, provided a driver has had a clean driving record for at least 10 years. That pathway could help any driver whose infractions happened a decade or more before they applied for a commercial driver’s license.The Registry unilaterally — through a regulation of its own creation — has decided not to allow any CDL reinstatement in Massachusetts despite its failure to timely process the infractions either when they first happened or when a driver first applied for a CDL. It’s now inexplicably …